From Fox Rothschild: Shortly after the recent video surveillance guidance from the EDPB, the Information Commissioner of the Isle of Man published an updated CCTV data protection guidance. Key takeaways for controllers: General Considerations and Governance: CCTV images identify living individuals and are, therefore, personal data. This means that the use of CCTV will be covered by…
Guilt by social media and cellphone association
Papers, Please! writes: Ismail B. Ajjawi, a Palestinian freshman admitted to Harvard College, arrived at Logan Airport in Boston last Friday, Lebanese passport and US student visa in hand. But after Mr. Ajjawai complied with demands by US customs and immigration officers at the airport to unlock his cellphone and laptop, the officers read what…
Medical Data De-Identification Is Under Attack
David Talby writes how scientists are getting closer to complete re-identification of supposedly de-identified data. He writes, in part: Getting Closer To Complete Re-identification June 2019 has posed two attacks on this long-time status quo: a technical one and a legal one. The technical attack came via a paper published in Nature which shows how…
EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles
The following is a press release from EFF: Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies today to obtain information about the agencies’ warrantless use of global positioning system (GPS) devices to track vehicles entering the U.S. In 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a…